Word: mannerize
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President Bush uses the word in an in-your-face, born-again manner that takes its resonance from a long Judeo-Christian tradition that sees radical evil embodied in heroically diabolical figures. This personalized evil is the kind that is insinuated by the sauntering Tempter in the first scene of the Book of Job, when God and Satan speculate like racing touts about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns...
...from someone of his birth. Hailing from Greenwich, Conn., he graduated from the boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall. He rows on the lightweight crew team and is concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. With his decidedly East Coast preppy style, Rogers certainly looks like Joe Harvard. Still, his manner lacks any entitled air about his sterling lineage...
This disagreement over the reality of the abductions is not new. In 1995, then-Dean of the Medical School Daniel C. Tosteson ’44 took the rare step of publicly warning Mack about the manner in which his research on alien abduction was affecting the academic standards of the Medical School...
Outgoing Law Review President Bert I. Huang ’96, said Kirschner is “widely respected” around the Law Review, not just for his editorial skill, but for his “unimpeachable integrity” and conciliatory manner...
...Daniel’s quiet, thoughtful manner soothed over a lot of things. He’s empathetic, as well as being brilliant,” Frank said...